96-home subdivision proposed in Polk Township

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Mar 30, 2007 at 12:10 AMMar 30, 2007 at 12:35 AM

Eagle Valley Homes owner Steven Parisi, who pled no contest last year to criminal charges of forgery, has proposed a new development project in Polk Township. The project, named The Woods, is a 96-home subdivision on 234 acres of land.

BETH BRELJE

KRESGEVILLE — Eagle Valley Homes owner Steve Parisi, who pleaded no contest last year to criminal charges of forgery, has proposed a new development project in Polk Township.

The project, named The Woods, is a 96-home subdivision on 234 acres of land south of Haney Road, a quarter-mile west of Burger Hollow Road. It will include 9,800 feet of blacktop roadway plus underground electric and communication utilities.

Lots will have individual wells but share a central sewage collection and treatment system. A property owners association will pay for the wastewater treatment plant and spray irrigation field, which will be owned and maintained by the developer.

The proposed plan was presented to Polk Township officials this week. Township Supervisor Lee Everett said it is too soon to form an opinion about The Woods.

If the project meets approval, development could start in November. The project would be complete by 2009, about the same time Parisi finishes his three-year probation.

Parisi was one of several people charged with exploiting first-time home buyers through false documents, forged signatures, inflated home prices and phantom down payments on second mortgages hidden from both the buyers and the primary lender.

Parisi is permanently banned from being a mortgage broker-banker and banned for the length of his probation from being a real estate agent in Pennsylvania. He is allowed to continue work as a home builder and developer.